Romney FTW?

[kthx]

What roots is obama drawing on btw. He went to harvard, guy must have been poor as fuck.

[project dragon]

I am trying to imagine someone putting their ballot into the ballet box with their ladyparts.

How would they do electronic voting????

[roxxkatt]

credit cards

think about it

[DoTheFandango]

What roots is obama drawing on btw. He went to harvard, guy must have been poor as fuck.

Obama took out student loans, worked student jobs, and received scholarships while he was at Harvard. He didn't finish paying off his federal student loans until the early 2000s.

[the_paul]

Blue collar workers might want to think about the ~$6 trillion added to the debt that is one day going to have to be paid off. But no, witty sarcastic one liners are more important.

[DoTheFandango]

And how would Mitt Romney propose shrinking that debt? I'm genuinely interested in learning. Lowers taxes (on everyone, of course), "closes loopholes," cuts funding to certain programs, increase military budget. Those are contradictory ideas.

[gran guerrero]

I don't think The_Paul wants Romney either

[Ephemeral]

And how would Mitt Romney propose shrinking that debt? I'm genuinely interested in learning. Lowers taxes (on everyone, of course), "closes loopholes," cuts funding to certain programs, increase military budget. Those are contradictory ideas.

The debt shrinks significantly under only one condition, a vibrant, healthy, and growing economy. And the thing that leads to a vibrant, healthy, and growing economy this is a President who has the ability to lead BOTH parties. Someone who can reach across the aisle and generate cooperation to get things done.
While I believe that Romney has shown that he can do this (as Governor of Massachusetts) I am unsure that he can pull it off as President. But there is one thing that I do know for sure, Obama has CLEARLY proven that he cannot. In fact, he gave up and has admitted so when he said on Sept 20, 2012, “The most important lesson I've learned is that you can't change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside.”

Why in the world would anyone put someone back in office when they have already admitted that they cannot change what is broken? I understood when people put him in office when he represented a ‘possible’ solution, but obviously this is no longer the case. While the Republicans clearly set out from the beginning to undermine his ability to lead, this is part of the job that each new administrations must resolve.
But his track record as a leader is abysmal and I have seen NOTHING in his campaign that even comes close to addressing how he might address this issue.

Without a leader in the White House the economy will remain uncertain. And as long as the economy remains uncertain, companies and consumers will continue to hold on to what little cash they have and not spend it reinvesting.
eph

[gran guerrero]

lol you speak of bipartisanship

as if the Republicans truly want that

“The most important lesson I've learned is that you can't change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside.”

What are you Faux news? You only address the first part of this quote, flat out ignoring the second half of it.

Obama was referring to the reluctance and resistance he faces constantly from trying to make compromise with the republican side. Democrats always try to give room, but fuck me if a republican will ever budge. The second half of this quote states that he hasn't stopped trying to reach bipartisanship, but it's not through inward means, but outward. What does that mean? He reaches out for the voters, lobbyists, and supporters of those elected officials to help them change their mind about their policies and choices in which laws have to be passed. He obviously can't make them conform in a reasonable manner, so why not get their asses burning when the people who vote for them and support them financially have incentive to change their views.

[gran guerrero]

Dems have given Bush 8 fucking years of wiggle room to do whatever the fuck he wanted.

Since Obama became President, repubs have fought tooth and nail at every fucking turn.

Bipartisanship? pfft. That's not something Republicans want. What they truly want is just to run the show so they can continue padding their wallets. Bunch of greedy fucking pigs.

[gran guerrero]

Someone who can reach across the aisle and generate cooperation to get things done.
While I believe that Romney has shown that he can do this

[T3l Ca7]

This is a nation that voted George w. bush on not once, but twice. Maybe the time you have voted him on was the time your fate was sealed.

This is also the nation who choose from just two people to run for president but 50 for national beauty pageant.

No hard feelings, k? :guitarist::guitarist:

[gran guerrero]

we have other parties who run

I personally like

Gary Johnson (Libertarian) and Jill Stein (Green Party)

but we have a nation of dumbed down masses that listens to whatever their choice of media tells them to believe in (which are owned by one of the major 2 party's)

[gran guerrero]

I mean it's not like the popular vote is the end all decision that gets the President chosen. It's the electoral college that picks them. Heck I bet we could find a state where the popular vote would go to Ron fucking Paul, but the electoral college would pick Obama/Romney.

We elect our politicians, but we don't get to elect who gets to be in the electoral college.

It doesn't really matter tbh. President doesn't exactly do shit. They just take all the credit and all the blame when anything goes right or wrong. It's our house of representatives and senators that makes things happen.

[Ephemeral]

lol you speak of bipartisanship

as if the Republicans truly want that

“The most important lesson I've learned is that you can't change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside.”

What are you Faux news? You only address the first part of this quote, flat out ignoring the second half of it.

Obama was referring to the reluctance and resistance he faces constantly from trying to make compromise with the republican side. Democrats always try to give room, but fuck me if a republican will ever budge. The second half of this quote states that he hasn't stopped trying to reach bipartisanship, but it's not through inward means, but outward. What does that mean? He reaches out for the voters, lobbyists, and supporters of those elected officials to help them change their mind about their policies and choices in which laws have to be passed. He obviously can't make them conform in a reasonable manner, so why not get their asses burning when the people who vote for them and support them financially have incentive to change their views.

I agree 100%, nothing will change. Republicans will continue to block anything he tries to do? So your point is that since ‘we’ gave dumbass Bush 8 years to demonstrate no leadership abilities that ‘we’ should do the same thing? That makes no sense to me at all.

And you say that I took things out of context with the quote and then proceed to do the same thing to me with Post #26? LOL When quoting someone you should place an ellipse (…) to show that you purposely truncated their sentence. To complete the original sentence “…I am unsure that he can pull it off as President.” Otherwise it is you that comes across like Fox News.

If you feel the presidency doesn’t mean shit I assume that you mean that executive office and leadership is meaningless. You are saying that the founding fathers who put in place the three branches government were wrong. If you don’t believe in separation of powers and the check and balances that it represents, please explain a system that you think would be better.
eph